my high school music teacher would feel vindicated to know i watched this (he blew)
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All About Eve 1950
the mug on bette davis
i fucking love the first scene in Margo’s dressing room
the fashion is legit on every character. gowns with pockets too. the fur coats.
oh my god i wish people still wrote like this, and the actors’ ability to effectively deliver lines is really helping to make this script pretty much timeless. a lesser cast would be dating the dialogue too much for sustainability.
i had no idea marilyn monroe was in this. she looks…
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The Brutalist 2024
it’s certainly striving to be the great historic epic that i’ve been told it is. its influences are on its sleeve and coded into the cinematography. there’s been plenty said about the godfather connection. i love an overture and the sideways credits are fresh aesthetically in this generation of filmmaking; the ad spot for vista vision is pretentious.
the caricature of the genius’s wife is toyed with enough that it proposes the idea of something more to say without actually…
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JFK 1991
every other character has the worst wig I’ve ever seen in a movie. they’re continually trying to outdo each other
movies hated gay people in the 90s. some of these portrayals like the Kevin Bacon and Joe Pesci characters are bananas. the Kevin Bacon character isn’t even based on anyone real
this is probably one of the more difficult stories to adapt and it reminds me a lot of Oppenheimer. just characters speaking exposition and big thoughts aloud to each…
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